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Pre-E3 2009: Serious Sam 3 Confirmed

Croteam's CEO Roman Ribaric has posted a "serious update" to the developer's site which explains that the team is currently beavering away on a sequel to Serious Sam 2. The last game in the over-the-top shooter's series was released back in 2005; since then, the company has been hard at work on its new engine, dubbed the Serious Engine 3.

...we have been working hard on a number of things, one of which is new next-gen 'Serious Engine 3' technology. More on this will come in future updates.

We have also recently started the development on two games, one of which is the next Serious Sam FPS game. Here, we are pretty close in signing the publishing deal, so when that happens, you'll hear it here as well.

Ribaric also notes that along with the next Serious Sam shooter, two other projects are currently in development.

Small nuke goes off in the minds of excited Serious Sam fans.

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Bryn says: Man, it feels like a lifetime ago since I played through the original Serious Sam at GameSpy headquarters. The multiplayer co-op was insane; a good number of fellow workers installed the game and we lost more than a few hours of productivity as we ripped through the game.

Has it really been nearly four years since the last game released [ed: and bombed]? Can't wait to see the new engine and Serious Sam 3!